I used to work near an air force base, and in my area in general there are lots of service members all over the place wearing their uniforms, at the mall, getting lunch, at the grocery store. I am surprised and in somewhat disbelief that you aren't allowed to do civilian things in uniform. Are all the people I see…

I took a freshman to my junior prom! Although I did take a (community) college boy to my senior prom, but that was only because I didn't know who to ask so my friend told me to ask her boyfriend's friend. I had more fun with the freshman the year before!

Dude, Christ seriously WAS the biggest hippie! Walking all around everywhere, preaching love and acceptance and picking up stragglers along the way, pissing off The Man with everything he did. Sometimes it's surprising to me that conservatives even like Jesus at all!

Well, you obviously missed the verse in the Bible where it says "ain't no homos going to heaven." Oh wait, no I'm sorry, that was actually from the roll of toilet paper where the pastor of this church records all his crazed rantings.

While any instances of animal cruelty horrify me, I wonder if charging her with animal cruelty is really a great way to get this woman the help she needs. Maybe it is, I honestly don't know. Perhaps having to endure the legal consequences of her actions will be good for her, but I wonder if someone has enough mental…

I had a dude tell me one time, in a surprised voice, "You are really funny! And not just 'girl funny' but actually funny!"

I disagree with your view on Don kissing Peggy's hand. He was in a very submissive position, with Peggy standing above him. It seemed to me like a subject kissing the hand of a queen, or something to that effect.

I agree with you. Her comment doesn't seem to exactly have to do with the situation of Paula Deen's ancestors having owned slaves as it does the entire idea of Confederate pride, etc.

Well, not everyone in the South owned slaves. In the sense of the general population of the South, it was a minority percentage who owned slaves. When the Civil War was being fought, it was often thought of as the "rich man's war but the poor man's fight." The rich land and slave owners wanted to win the war, and the…

I think I understand the point you are trying to make, with regards to slavery just being a terrible institution, which it is. But in the historical context of things, 35 slaves is actually a large number. Most slave owners had only a few slaves, maybe 1 to work in the field with the family and 1 in the house. The…

Actually, relations between whites and blacks were not as segregated and full of hatred as it was during the Jim Crow era. During slavery, slaves while obviously not living freely, were not treated as poorly in public as they were during Jim Crow, at least in some parts.

I would think it plausible that a white Southern family with ancestors who owned slaves would start to conveniently alter their history once slavery was over, so that word of mouth history by the time it reached Paula's generation, had been changed from rich slave owners, to poor laborers. Nobody (well, nobody of any…

Reading your comment, I for some reason the POTATOES was in response to the lame FB posts, and I thought, wow, that is actually the perfect response when someone is being super ridiculous. Just write POTATOES as a comment. That will bring things to a screeching halt. Then I realized that wasn't what the POTATOES…

Very interesting. I was raised Mormon, and there's sort of an unspoken agreement among some Mormon scholars that Jesus was most likely married, as he was living the life of somewhat traditional Jewish man. It would be interesting to hear a debate between Mormon and Catholic scholars on the status of Jesus' marital…

Excellent, I will definitely read that, thanks!

If I remember correctly, priests waaaay back in the day could marry, and it was changed due to something involving priests having sons who they left their land too, and the church no longer owned as much land because the sons of priests didn't necessarily become priests, so they lost the ownership to that land.

I totally agree, plus, the reason her voice sounds...not perfect, is because she is acting this song, and is crying while singing it, which totally works, in my opinion.

That's exactly what I was going to say. It's been like...4 or 5 years I think.

This is the sad case with my boyfriend and his ex-wife. She left the state to go live with her parents to "take some time for herself." She stayed there long enough to establish residency and then announced she wanted a divorce, and because of residency laws, he couldn't have her legally required to bring their son…

I think it's fair to say that discussing the opinion of this one random, stupid guy is important because it's the opinion held by many random, stupid guys.